The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-09
E9ct1anoe 9rntes.

The Nashville Issue observes point
eddy: THE vested rights of li4uor are
the invested rights that make humanity
inhuman."
Rev Frank W. Gundaulus, of Balti-
more, has accepted the cell of the Ply
mouth Congregational church of New
York to become it's pastor.
The Hebrew Christian asserts that
there are 100000 jews who are Christians,
though there are only $50 missionaries to
the Jews in the world.
-Montesquieu said: eff Europe is to
be ruined, it will be ruined by gaming"
May not the same thing be said of Amer
lea? The speculative spirit that expects
to get something for nothing, or, what is
about as bad, that expects to get the best
things for the cheapest prices, will slowly
but surely disintegrate the foundations
not only OF the individual character, but.
also Of the State Unity.
Said an intelligent Catholic laynan
of Mexico recently: "The world moves,
in fact, it goes round, and there is no use
in shutting the facts of science out of our
text books. By joining ourselves to the
onward movement of the times, while
holding fast to what we believe the great
realities of spiritual truth, we will win
more souls than by standing off denying
plain facts and entering into questions
which have no bearing on eternal real
ities."
"A new Don Qdixote has arisen in the
person of DIR. Justin d. Fulton, Bap-
fist minister in Brooklyn. He has re-
signed his pastorate to make open war
fare on Romanisn, and seems to think
six millions directed by the Pope and
ruled by the despotism of Rome are con-
trolling sixty millions of so-called free
Americans" Happily for the peace of
the nation and the good of religion, there
are many outside the fold of the Gath
Ollie church who will laugh at the Doctors
nightmare.
=" We learn" says the Jewish Mes
semger, that fifty-six good bishops have
put forth circular letter commencing
the Jewish missions of the church con-
Quoted by the Church Society for Pro-
noting Christianity amongst the Jews,
and calling upon the dioceses for general
offerings on Good Friday We are I'M
der deep obligations to our Episcopalian
friends for the affectionate interest they
thus annually display toward the Jews,
which is certainly more than the dioceses
show toward their Jewish missions,
judged by the collections"
Each Frenchman is taxed three dol
lars year for the support OF the army,
and each German two dollars Comment
Ing on these facts, French writer mourn
fully exclaims that unless matters change,
France, in twenty years time will find
herself conquered without drawing the
sword. In France, he says, we bake
bread which costs the State as dear as
asparagus costs a citizen who wishes to
enjoy the luxury of garden and gar
dener 1t is also pointed out that Ger
man soldiers before being accepted for
service are more closely examined than
French soldiers during medical inspec-
ton, that there are few unhealthy men in
the ranks, and that hospital expenses are
thus avoided. The army and navy are
estimated to cost France $685. 100000;
England, $4,000, 600; Germany and Rus
STA, each $100,000,000 Austria, S60,00O,-
000.-Neac York Observer.
There are to-day in Mexico, accord
ing to a correspondent Of the Boston
Herald, many patriotic liberals who re-
greet the hostile attitude of the State TO-
ward the Church. Here is a nation of
ten million souls, largely Indians, who
are no more to be won to the cold ideals
of Protestant denominationalism than
they are to become theosophists. With
ont the Catholic faith they will return to
their Aztec idols, gods of human sacrifice,
haunting terrors conjured up by bar
barians, living as in perpetual night
mare. And among educated men in
Mexico to-day the case presents a similar
phase. Leaving the Catholic church
they become, not Protestants, but inf
dels, freethinkers, materialists pure and
simple. They go from faith to no faith,
from the religion of their ancestors
which, at least, provided food for the hu-
man soul-to the husks of the deniers of
everything sacred and associated with
human aspirations
THERE died in Newark, N. j., March
%, man whose works are known in ey-
cry land where the human voice is raised
in praise OF God-Rev. DR.. Ray Palmer.
His hymns are in every Christian hymn
book in every language. He was born at
Little Compton, r. l., on November 7,
1903. At Phillips academy, in Andover,
he had Oliver Wendell Holmes for fell
low-student. He was graduated from
Yale College in 1880. Immediately after
leaving college he began teaching in a
young ladies' institute in this city, and at
the same time turned his attention to
verse-writing. He had been accustomed
to give expression to his thoughts in
verse from early youth, but it was not
until his twenty-secondy year that he wrote
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